29SEP08

Coming Clean... Well once upon a time I HAD a dear friend named Lesa but then she tagged me with this... Take pictures of THESE things only rule NO CLEANING. Due to being gone for a month and then Trav being here and then my friends Theresa and Bryatt being here my house is NOT looking great. That being said I had already planned on this week being a "fall clean up week" (I swear I'm not making this up ask Cristine AND Erica I had JUST told them!) Oh well it's not like I'm a dirty person so it's really not terrible... Oh and I'm only teasing you, Lesa, I still love you!

Pics of what the children are doing... Well since I picked up my camera as soon as I saw Lesa's blog they were already in bed. So sweet and innocent!

The laundry room. It's a hard room to take a pic of but there are my military washer and dryer in all their glory! :)

Inside the fridge. Luckily I had just gone shopping b/c honestly if you saw it LAST night you would have worried that I didn't feed my child. :)

Favorite room in the house... My bedroom, of course, especially when Trav is home!!

The closet. Okay this I worked on TODAY. It looks a million times better. We just have NO room in this house. Too much crap not enough closet space!

The toilet. Random and you probably didn't need to see that!

The kitchen sink. Okay so it's not perfect but it was late and I had just had Cristine and Erica over for dinner so it's clean but there are CLEAN dishes all on the side...
Fave pair of shoes. Right now it's these. They are SOO comfy and I'm a flipflop-a-holic. My poor husband hates it!

Dream vacation: Now I realize it says dream but let me just brag for a minute and say I've BEEN on my dream vacation! I LOVE living in Europe. It's a toss up between Greece and Italy. I would one day also like to go to Hawaii just to sit on the beach...

Me in all my glory.
Oh so now I'm suppossed to tag people... The problem is I don't know if anyone else will do it... Oh well lets try and get some of my wonderful family in here... I tag Tara (I want to see where you live anyways) Tori, Traci, (let's see the new house!) I really want to tag Erica and Cristine but I know both your blogs aren't just random blogs (cooking and kid!) but maybe you just send ME the pics! :) Come on ladies I did it!

24SEP08

One word- YUMMY!! For Cristine's birthday she wanted to make HERSELF a cake. Well I just couldn't let that happen so I told her I would do it. I was so proud of myself it turned out FANTASTIC. It looked so pretty and it tasted even better! Check out her blog for AWESOME GREAT recipes including this one but there are a TON to chose from!

http://cristinecooks.blogspot.com/

24SEP08

Ryan... babies just grow and grow and they learn so many new things it's CRAZY!! Ryan can sit perfectly on her own. She rolls whenever she pleases (and that's not often b/c she prefers sitting!) She is SORDA low crawling. I say sorda b/c she only goes BACKWARDS! :) It's kinda funny the way she gets from one end of the room to the other all going backwards and then gets mad b/c she can't figure out how to get back. She is SUCH a sweet, easy going baby. She sleeps 13-14 hours straight at night with 2 naps during the day. Her new thing as of TODAY is trying to clap (Thank you Cristine for starting this it's adorable.) She gets them together on cue she's just not sure how to keep them going. I love this little baby girl!

She LOVES other babies! These are the 2 she kicks it with the most. Annika and Eric. Aren't they adorable!
Happy Princess.
Look at those cheeks (I also for once see myself in one of my kids in this pic. Must be the chubby cheeks! :) )

24SEP08

Well after a VERY busy couple of months I think our life is FINALLY going back to normal! We were in AZ for over a month, then Travis was here, and then our AWESOME friends Bryatt and Theresa came and got married in Greece (congrats again guys!) plus we got to do some hanging out and traveling around here. So now that we are sorda getting back into the swing of things I figured I should post some pics. This is Princess Alexis. This little girl LOVES to dress up! EVERY morning she wakes up and with in 5 minutes she is changing into one of her dressup costumes. Unless we are leaving this is usually what she is wearing all day long! :) THANK YOU to all those who have bought her dress up clothes! She LOVES them! :)

Tinkerbell
Cindrella eating breakfast.
This is a favorite shirt of hers and if you look at the shoes you will see they are about 3 sizes too big. She actually isn't allowed to wear these for a little while b/c she wore them till her toes were BLEEDING! I even said, "I think your shoes are making you get owies," and she said, "no, it's okay mommy!
Just thinking about how beautiful she is!!

26AUG08

Okay all my military friends (or anyone really!) I was sent this sight and HAD to share b/c I just think there are some stinking cute things!!! http://www.cafepress.com/silentranksshop Check it out and let me know if you order anything just for fun! :) I ordered me a sweatshirt and both girls t-shirts. I'll probably order more b/c I'm just a cheese like that! :)

24AUG08

***I have been trying to upload the last few pics but the website is being very uncooperative so I will have to edit this post with more pics later!***

I have been so crazy!!! I have been wanting to update my pictures for a while now and I feel like I am so far behind I don't even know where to start. So I'm just going to put in a few pictures from last month and start fresh! We had such a great time in Arizona with friends and family. Alexis really LOVED playing with all her cousins and I love watching her play b/c I just love all my family.

Travis has been here about a week and a half now and we've pretty much just hung out although we've also gone to the zoo and the park and just enjoyed each others company. We also purchased a 2008 Dodge Caravan. Yep that's right Travis and Monica are proud owners of *gulp* a mini-van!!! We won't actaully have it till we get back stateside but we're excited to have a new car with so much more room even if it is a mini-van!

Alexis is getting so big I can't even believe she is 3!! She is loving every minute of daddy time! She is such a daddy's girl when he's around it's unbelievable. She is so smart and SO independent. I am so proud of her independance b/c it is really important to me. We've taken a little break from school this last couple months (Umm I'm going to call it summer vacation!) but we will be picking back up with it as soon as Travis leaves. She always has SOMETHING to say and loves to ask Why? all the time. We try to answer her as much as possible but usually it has to end with I don't know or else it will go on forever!!!

Ryan is officially a chunky monkey! YAY I was so worried about her for a while there. She was 15 pounds and 25 inches as of 3 weeks ago. She is sitting up really well (which just seemed to happen over night!) She loves to talk and giggle and she loves to watch her big sister (and her big sister LOVES her!) She is such an easy baby! She sleeps up to 13 hours at night! She was going 8 p.m. to about 9 a.m. but the last few days it's been 8 till 6 and then she just eats and goes back down till 9. What a dream baby huh! :) We started her on rice cereal on the 14th and then on the 20th she had sweet potates which she wasn't sure of at first but by the end of it she was eating like a pro!

I will try to do better about posting once our life gets a little back to normal! I love reading every one else's blogs and appreciate how up to date every keeps them so I better keep up with you all!! :)

Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARTER!!!!! It's my baby brother's birthday and I can't believe he is 19!!! He leaves in October for his mission to Southern Mexico and I am so PROUD of him!! Love you brother enjoy your day!!!!

Alexis and her cousin Travi singing songs at the family reunion. She really looks up to her older cousins!

Ryan sleeping in the middle of the camp grounds! That is my easy going baby!!

Lexie hitting the pinata! She was awesome at that!

Silly girls! Alexis put her swimsuit on her head so we needed Ryan to match! :)

Ryan's first time on the swing and Grandman and Granpa McBride's! She LOVED it!!!

Lexie's birthday party! I have no idea why the kids decided to all flash peace signs but it was cute!

All of Ryan and Lexie's cousins only Alexis was pretty uncooperative!

Ryan and Papa after he blessed her!

Ryan and her adorable cousin Pyper!

13AUG08

Travis is here!!!!!!

So for those who don't know Travis ended up getting his R&R dates pushed up so he could take care of some stuff here in Germany that he needed to put in his packet for Warrant Officer (more on that later.) I ended up leaving AZ over a week early to get to Baltimore and there were NO flights out on Space A so I ended up paying an arm and a leg to get the girls and I home to Germany. We got in on Sunday and Travis was already in Baghdad trying to get a flight out. He finally got here this morning around 0500!!! He has a few things to take care of and then we're going to be just enjoying his R&R and some time together as a family! I know it's been a while since I've posted pics and updated and I promise to get to it soon but for now I'm going to go enjoy my husband! :)